tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post8911436430946049736..comments2024-02-10T19:58:20.327+00:00Comments on Stuck in a Book: Yes, a meme I'm afraidStuckInABookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-62594515035500591652014-03-27T12:43:11.908+00:002014-03-27T12:43:11.908+00:00OWV, this sounds like a book by Gene Stratton Port...OWV, this sounds like a book by Gene Stratton Porter called the Keeper of the Bees. I think both you and Simon would like her other books. They are wonderful:-)<br />SonjaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-87802915871649081542007-05-11T14:27:00.000+01:002007-05-11T14:27:00.000+01:00"People studying science subjects might have read ..."People studying science subjects might have read something else"? Ouch! I just got stereotyped! (Though I have seen quite a few fantasy novels in the hands of such of my classmates as read before lectures.)Amat Librishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343725194203848055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-72416235073708449812007-05-05T21:55:00.000+01:002007-05-05T21:55:00.000+01:00I think I may have an RMH, only I am afraid I can'...I think I may have an RMH, only I am afraid I can't remember the author.<BR/>I think it was called 'The Keeper of the Bees' and it featured an old man who helped to rear a baby - a bit after the fashion of Silas Marner. I seem to recall that he had a fixation about the efficacious effects of eating tomatoes - so your Papa would not appreciate it.<BR/>I loved it as a girl - it had wonderful descriptive passages conjuring up a lost world.<BR/>Has anyone else out there heard of it?<BR/>OVWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-19575744211031597542007-05-05T07:57:00.000+01:002007-05-05T07:57:00.000+01:00Why do I always feel inadequate when I see the que...Why do I always feel inadequate when I see the question about a book that changed your life? I just can't think of one. My earliest memories relating to books are of the physical book "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie. I can see the orange cover wuth its impressed black titles and picture and I can see and feel th epaper inside, almost smell it. I can see the typeface and remember the blissful feeling of being read to. The same is true of A A Milne's "When We Very Young"<BR/>Strangely I can't remember many other books from when we were young but I know there were plenty and we played libraries with our parents' books. That of course was in the days when books had to be stamped so this game involved thumping the inside of a great many books with a clenched fist.<BR/><BR/>Oh wait a moment, I 've just remembered the joy of finding my mother's dark green fat copy of "The Princess of the Chalet School" by Elinor M Brent Dyer. Maybe this is the one that changed my life in that I found out that if you enjoyed a book so much that you imagined yourself part of it you might be lucky enough to find similar volumes by the same author.<BR/>I think we all have experienced at some time, the thrill of an author obsession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com